The Green Marathon’s founder is Mark Smurthwaite, a PhD candidate at University of Central Lancashire. His interests and passions have always been in sustainability area and looking at the philosophy of sustainability.
This letter is to confirm that an assessment was carried out by Mark Smurthwaite, a qualified structural engineer (in the discipline of marine engineering), with Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours), Master of Arts by Research, PhD Candidate in Engineering, Environmental Impact Research, University of Central Lancashire School of Engineering. A survey of the components of …
Social incentives as a solution A large section of the population are concerned about the environment and the effects of climate change (Pirani and Secondi, 2011) although environmental knowledge or concern are not sufficient for stimulating eco-friendly behaviour (Sorqvist et al, 2016; Schanes et al, 2018; Taufique et al, 2016). On the production side additional …
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The human race as a collective group is not acting in its own long-term interest. With each year that passes, we are getting further away from many of the sustainability goals, putting the survival of the species at risk and, contrary to our fundamental programming, reducing the viability of our descendants from continuing out lineage. …
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Can the thinkers of the past teach us anything about 21st century existential threat. As the means to significantly degrade our existence has only been in our hands for a relatively short-time, and the problems springing from our genetic programming to consume and innovate are only being discovered incrementally, the great thinkers of the past …